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Lenroc
 
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Default Ultimate smoke alarm - never need to change batteries!

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:00:46 +0000, JOHN T wrote:

not good....some electrical fires that cause total distruction of the home
cause the electicity to go off long before smoke would get to the bedroom.
If you have a death wish go ahead and run the smoke detector off 110. John


But the OP already says he has batteries that last a few months, and is
just looking for a way to continually recharge them. Russel just mentioned
that the OP could just feed off the wall power until it goes away, then
switch over to batteries.

If the power went out for a few months (long enough to drain the
batteries), you'd think that the OP would have other issues (like... not
having power) to worry about.

The only thing I'd worry about is making sure that if the smoke alarm _is_
working off batteries, to have some sort of signal/alarm going off to
alert you to the fact, to eliminate the risk that only the smoke alarm
would lose power...

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Lenroc